WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is urging Congress to pass legislation to permanently end the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder, a policy ...

Under that formula, a person convicted for selling 5 grams of crack cocaine was treated the same as someone who sold 500 grams of powder cocaine. That proportion was narrowed to 18 to 1 in 2010.

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US Attorney General calls for end to cocaine sentencing disparity. Memos from the head of the US Justice Department take aim at drug policies linked to high rates of Black incarceration.

The Department of Justice ... because these felons will be released from federal prisons across the United States. Additionally, some crack ... Intellectual Property Offenses, and Crack Cocaine ...

While we wait for the United States Senate to pass the Equal Act, effectively and finally eliminating the sentencing disparity between two forms of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland ...

When crack, a cocaine derivative, swept through the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, Congress passed a law – crafted by then-senator and now-President Joe Biden – setting harsher ...

A former security minister and ex-judge from Costa Rica was charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to import cocaine after being ...

Freddie Lee Hall, Jr., 57, of D.C., was sentenced to 84 months for dealing crack cocaine while possessing guns, officials said.

Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Senior Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law: “President Biden should use his clemency power to bring an end at last to an injustice that ...

Celso Gamboa Sanchez, a former security minister and judge from Costa Rica, has been indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in ...